Dispatches Del Camino

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It is among the grandest churches in the world. It is one of the greatest achievements of man that took so long to build that architectural periods changed several times throughout its construction.

Even so, when you walk into Santiago de Compostela the first thing you see is not the cathedral. You neither see the gilded grandeur, nor the ornate.

The first things you see are pilgrims.

Left Behind Theology: The Great Christian Escape Plan That Never Was

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Michael S. Heiser spent years pointing out the awkward truth that the modern, pre-tribulation “rapture” isn’t ancient doctrine rediscovered—it’s a relatively recent theological invention. The system most people assume is baked into the Bible shows up centuries late, largely tied to John Nelson Darby and the 19th-century appetite for tidy timelines. That doesn’t make it automatically false. But it should make you nervous about treating it like first-century Christianity.

Propaganda from the credentialed media will not change reality

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My website, The First Street Journal, maintains a Stylebook of its own devise. It includes: Those who claim to be transgender will be referred to with the names, honorifics, and pronouns appropriate to the sex of their birth; the site owner does not agree with the cockamamie notion that anyone can simply ‘identify’ with a …

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Empire in Denial: How the United States Is Quietly Losing Its Strategic Edge

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Empires don’t collapse in a blaze of cinematic glory—they erode, quietly, while insisting everything is fine. The United States still fields the most powerful military on Earth, still prints the world’s reserve currency, still lectures the planet on order and stability. But beneath the polished surface, the math is getting ugly, the cohesion is cracking, and the strategic margin is shrinking. This is what decline actually looks like—not defeat, but drift. Not surrender, but overextension wrapped in denial. The dangerous part isn’t that America is weakening; it’s that it hasn’t fully realized it yet.